Over the past 20 years, the DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies like VMWare, Boingo Wireless, Palm, E*Trade, Tivo, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, thereby helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters.

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Anthony Ha

Anthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco.

Jake Mintz

Jake Mintz is co-founder of Bump.

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Jake Mintz, co-founder of the mobile information-sharing app Bump, discusses what he sees as the dos and don'ts of mobile app design. "The phone's a really powerful device," he explains, arguing that while its wealth of personal information can be extremely helpful, it can also be used for "evil" purposes.